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Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 20:55:53 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Using native symlinks
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On May 28 14:16, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
> What permissions do I need for native symlinks to work? According to
> edit rights I have SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege (when checking via an
> elevated shell - i.e. with "Run as Administrator"):
> 
> ┌─┤ csutclif AT bmotec3017201lt ├──┤ ~ │
> └─┤ 14:11 ├─>> editrights -u $USER -l
> SeLockMemoryPrivilege
> SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege
> 
> However, if I try and create a native symlink it still fails.  If
> using the winsymlink:native option I get a "cygwin" symlink, winln

That's "winsymlinks:native" I hope...

> pops up a message stating I need the SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege.
> Not sure if it's relevant or not, but the $USER in this case is a
> domain user, not a local user.

Are you sure it's an elevated shell?  `id -G' should contain 544.  Is
the filesystem NTFS?  Is it a local NTFS or a remote NTFS hosted by a
Vista-or-later OS?  If you set CYGWIN=winsymlink


Corinna

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